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The Sportsman’s Guide president/CEO Greg Binkley said in early 2003 that the company would be hunting for acquisitions. A year later, the South St. Paul, MN-based cataloger of outdoor gear has captured its first prize. On June 29 the company bought …

The News That Charming Shoppes will discontinue its Lane Bryant Woman catalog by the end of the first quarter of fiscal 2010 must have come as a relief to Redcats USA, the brand’s former owner.
After all, Redcats USA had to …

Want to get more prospects to your site to increase holiday traffic and seasonal sales? Here are five easy tips to tune up search marketing activities, Website visibility and seasonal e-mailings for better returns on your time and marketing investment.
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As a merchant, you know it can be easy to slip into neutral and follow last year’s patterns and processes of product creation, trade show travel, and vendor meetings both domestically and internationally.
But by doing the same thing, you …

Loyalty programs can be your key to high conversion rates. People like to be appreciated for their patronage—especially if you offer them something special that first-time or infrequent customers don’t get. By making small improvements to your e-mail …

Downtime is the operative—or perhaps, nonoperative—word for many paper mills during the latter half of this year. New Page Corp., the top producer of coated freesheet paper in North America, announced last week it plans to take about 40,000 …

Comailing is the process of merging catalogs that have already been bound into one mail stream. Cobinding occurs during the bindery process as the catalogs are being bound so that catalogs sharing the same trim size can be comingled into …

Taxing Proposal
Last month, O+F invited readers’ comments on a proposal by Sen. John Kerry to remove tax incentives for U.S. companies sending jobs overseas. Here are some of the responses we received. Names and other identifying information …

Continuing its efforts to win over baby boomers, Warren, PA-based Blair Corp. mailed an expanded version of its home goods catalog on Jan. 5. Between 1 million and 2 million consumers, mostly house file names, received the catalog.
At 180 pages, the new Blair …

Outdoor gear and apparel merchant Patagonia is renowned for its handsome, rugged products and the adventure photography in its catalogs. But how is its site at selling products and handling search?
Critiquers Amy Africa, president of Helena, VT-based Web consultancy …